Lovesick and evil sock. Cool. I did enjoy some of the anagrams in Anagrams. Unfortunately, the book contains too many quips and quick standup comedy-type jokes for my taste. It’s a solid 4. The main character is Benna whose life is dispensed in bits and pieces of reality and imagination interspersed with some wittiness and mostly bad jokes. It's like the author collected all the funny lines she came across and strung them together in a story. The mixed together reality and imagination bits make the book a little hard to follow in the beginning. The story of Benna, despite the jokes and word play, is sad with her imaginary friend and daughter and troubled love life, but the ending is downright gloomy. Here’s a taste of the despondency, “They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.” Or how about this quote:
Sunday is always a bad day. A sort of gray purgatory that resembles a bus station with broken vending machines.
And now I'm so blue I feel like poking my eyes out with the potato peeler...
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